A Conversation with Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum is the founding director of the Ohr Torah Stone network’s Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emissary Training and Placement Institutes, which held its annual conference in Miami this week for its regional shlichim
OTS Shlichim Gather in Miami for Regional Conference Rabbinical and educational emissaries from across North and South America convened in Miami, Florida this week for the annual conference organized by the Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emissary Training Institutes, part of the
Confronting Critical Challenges: 70 OTS European Shlichim Gather for Regional Conference Impact of war, demographics, conversion and interfaith relations top agenda at OTS European Jewish emissaries conference Maariv Online | March 20, 2023 Just prior to the Israeli government’s official
This week, approximately 70 shlichim from OTS’s Straus-Amiel and Beren-Amiel Emissary Training Institute currently serving as rabbis and educators in communities across Europe came together in Lausanne, Switzerland for a three-day regional conference. The conference kicked off with Straus-Amiel and
Ohr Torah Stone salutes 46 graduates of our emissary training programs who have embarked upon new rabbinical and educational placements around the world
About half a year ago, the Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emissary Institute hung a huge corkboard map of the world on one of the walls of their office, exhibiting all of the Jewish communities across the globe where their 266 educational
The Haunting Sound of the Shofar Rabbi Ari and Laura Silbermann are shlichim from OTS’s Straus-Amiel Emissary Training Institute, currently serving as Rabbi and Rabbanit of Mizrachi UK in Manchester, England The piercing sound of the shofar is our way of enthroning
Preparing Jewish Rabbinical Leadership for the Modern World “Ohr Torah Stone’s rabbinic training is about so much more than learning the halakha,” enthused Aviel Javesky, a student in Ohr Torah Stone’s Joseph and Gwendolyn Straus Rabbinical Seminary. “I also learned
Ensuring Jewish Community Growth, Even During a Pandemic When idealistic, committed young adults embark on the two-year Straus-Amiel Emissary Training Program for rabbinical couples, they cannot possibly imagine all of the challenges they will face building Jewish community throughout the
Tu B’shvat program highlights importance of Jewish Diaspora While most Diaspora communities look to Israel for direction, one local program is looking to strengthen Diaspora Jewry Dena Wimpfheimer, Jan 28, 2021 While most Diaspora communities look to Israel to celebrate
I knew Hanukkah celebrated defeating the Greeks. Then I moved to Athens and the story got complicated. Oped by Rabbi Eliran Shabo | December 10, 2020 ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — When my wife and I arrived in this capital city
Mexico City Jewish community embraces ceremony amidst coronavirus restrictions Amid coronavirus pandemic restrictions, Jewish community of Mexico City embraces unique ceremony during holiday season. Arutz 7 | September 29, 2020 As the Jewish world across the Diaspora commemorates a truly
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